DuchessM
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DuchessM
@m_will_o_wisp
Artist, mother, wife. Cloud addict. Recovering youngest child. True Believer.











#BREAKING: The High Court has dismissed former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann's bid to challenge the outcome of his failed defamation case. The Federal Court had ruled that on the balance of probabilities, Mr Lehrmann did rape Brittany Higgins at Parliament House in 2019. ab.co/4mlUIxE









@Peter_Fitz We all have an inner hoon.











Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been released from police custody, following his arrest on Thursday on suspicion of misconduct in public office.



I've just been chatting with Nick Cullinan, the excellent new director of the British Museum, and I'm very relieved to say that the story put by the Daily Telegraph about the BM cancelling the name Palestine is a complete misrepresentation of the facts: "To reassure you we are not removing mention from Palestine from our labels," Nick told me. "Indeed, we have a display on at the moment about Palestine and Gaza. "I know this is something our curators have thought long and hard about - as you can imagine. We amended two panels in our ancient Levant gallery last year during a regular gallery refresh, when some wording was amended to reflect historical terms. "To be honest, the even more frustrating and concerning thing is that I knew nothing about this until yesterday and has only been explained to me this morning. I hadn’t even seen that [UK Lawyers for Israel] letter despite asking for it until this morning. I’m disgusted by the whole thing." The question remains why the Daily Telegraph would put out such a mischief-making story without first fact checking it with the Directors office.





The High Court has ruled the proscription of Palestine Action was unlawful. Today, human rights won. Today, we all won. The Court was clear: the Home Secretary can’t reach for the nuclear option simply because it makes policing easier. The government must recognise the huge damage the proscription has caused to protest rights in the UK, respect today’s decision, and accept the proscription was wrong. Read Amnesty International UK’s analysis on today’s ruling ➡️ amn.st/6010hpyOO









